Word: franked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FRANK made serious mistakes, as he is the first to acknowledge. But House members are elected to be legislators, not saints. Why else did Massachusetts voters re-elect Rep. Gerry Studds after he had sex with teenage Congressional pages? How else could Missouri voters send Republican Rep. Bill Emerson back to Congress despite his history of alcoholism? The history of Congress is full of examples of constituents forgiving their representatives...
...Frank's admitted violation of the law cannot be the sole justification for his removal. Gay sexual acts are also illegal in D.C.; should Frank be prosecuted and removed from office for being...
...Frank affair lies in the nature of his mistakes. House Minority Leader Robert Michel (R-III.) argued that because a heterosexual would be kicked out for hiring a prostitute, then Frank should be as well. Michel called Frank a "stain" on the House and said that applying a different standard to Frank would be giving preferential treatment to gays...
...Frank's case is less troubling than Lukens's. Lukens essentially abused a child; Frank was manipulated by a sleazy adult with more than 10 prior convictions. Lukens turned to hired sex because he had an admitted fetish for Blacks, according to the child; Frank said he turned to prostitutes after 45 years of repressing his sexuality. Afraid to come out of the closet, Frank said he had to turn to illegal methods of fulfillment...
...double standard to criticize Lukens for hiring a 17-year-old girl and to sympathize with Frank's call to the prostitute. It is not giving preferential treatment to gays to acknowledge that the social stigma on them can be over-powering, and lead to desperate measures...